4/6/13 How to Cope with Helicopter Parents | Pink and Black Pink and Black | April 6, 2013 Entertainment Home Style & Beauty Love & Sex College Life About Us Health Jobs Internship Program Life People Advertise Subscribe Contact Us Win To search type and hit enter... No Comments How to Cope with Helicopter Parents Pink and Black Magazine Like You like this. You and 251 others like Pink and Black Magazine. It’s Friday night and your school just won the first home football game. Your friends want to celebrate and head to the local Sonic to get some tater tots and shakes. You’re not exactly what people would call a bad kid. You have decent grades and have never missed curfew. But somehow, your parents find ways to doubt you. They don’t allow you to go out. From their perspective, there are kids at Sonic waiting to tempt you into something worse. A house party—with alcohol? A marijuana session in the basement? A nudist colony? What parents and kids fail to do is try and understand the situation from each other’s perspective and learn to trust one another. With this understanding, trust and willingness to work together, the few years left under your parents roof do not have to be difficult ones. Chances are, if your parents are helicopter parents, they’ve experienced the dismal dangers of the high school crowd more so than you ever have. They know what’s out there and what’s waiting around the bend for you. What they don’t know is that they’ve raised you well enough to handle yourself in such a situation. You want to show them this is a fact. Do small things around the house they wouldn’t expect you to do. Unload and load the dishwasher. Clean the bathroom. Vacuum the house. These are all stepping stones to creating an aura of great responsibility. In rare cases, helicopter parents are obsessed with cleanliness and cleaning will not satisfy them (it’s a personal thing). In this case, help in other ways around the house. Ignore your bratty sibling and show you are the bigger person. Take care of the dog without being asked. Be creative. According to the website Dive rs ity Exe c utive , some noted actions of helicopter parents included wanting to sit in on their son/daughter’s interviews, calling employers to push them to hire their son/daughter, calling employers about son/daughter’s salary, and calling to inquire about why their son/daughter was not hired. Helicopter parenting can extend past school-age years. The hardest thing about the situation is the parent has good intentions, wanting to still be a part of their child’s life—wanting to feel needed. And we can sympathize, but when it gets this far, it has to be stopped. 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Co py Ka te : Em ula te the Duc he s s o f Ca m bridge ’s S tyle 953 Views 947 Views All in all, the helicopter parent can play a healthy part in your life regularly without the fear of rejection or abandonment. pinkandblack-magazine.com/2012/09/28/how-to-cope-with-helicopter-parents/ 1/3 4/6/13 How to Cope with Helicopter Parents | Pink and Black 4 Ea s y S te ps T o S hrink Y o ur Z it in 2 4 Ho urs ! Story by Ka yla He rre ra , contributing writer. Image Source TA GS action 752 Views adult cope employer helicopter job parents N a tha n Adria n: T he N e xt M ic ha e l P he lps ? school 620 Views What We’re Tweeting Did you know our Editor in Chief has a blog about Pink and Black? 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